FEMALE DEVELOPMENT OFFICER / SECRETARY: STEPH NASH
TREASURER: NICK INWOOD
FIXTURES SECRETARY: DAVE MELLOR
GROUNDSMAN: DANNY POWELL
WELFARE OFFICER: HELEN GILLIGAN
BAR & FACILITIES MANAGER: TYLER REEVE
COMMITTEE MEMBER: RICHARD GIBBON
COMMITTEE MEMBER: STUART WYKES
COMMITTEE MEMBER: RICHARD FAULKNER
COMMITTEE MEMBER: STEVE REEVE
COMMITTEE MEMBER: JO THOMAS
COMMITTEE MEMBER: DALE WALTON
MANAGEMENT/COACHING TEAM MANAGEMENT/COACHING TEAM
FIRST TEAM: SCOTT CARLIN
RESERVE TEAM: DAN POWELL
‘A’ TEAM: ASH FOX
LADIES TEAM: STUART WHITE
UNDER 18s GIRLS: JAMES GEDDES UNDER 18s (NYSL): DARREN SMITH
UNDER 16s: GAVIN DAVIS
UNDER 15s: RYAN NASH
UNDER 14s: CHRIS ASHTON
UNDER 13s BLACK: RICH FAULKNER
UNDER 13s WHITE: TONY HILL
UNDER 12s BLUES: IAN MARRIOTT UNDER 12s WHITE: MITCH HAINES
UNDER 12s WHITES GIRLS: STEPH NASH
UNDER 12s BLACKS GIRLS: ALAN THOMAS
UNDER 10s: ANDREW JACKMAN
UNDER 9s: DARREN WILLIX
UNDER 7s WHITE: IAN MARRIOTT
UNDER 7s BLACK: JASON
WELCOME TO FROM THE CHAIRMAN... FROM THE CHAIRMAN...
THE SETT
As Chairman of Bugbrooke St Michaels Football Club, I would like to offer you a warm welcome to The Sett and I hope that you have an enjoyable visit.
Here at Bugbrooke St Michaels we are working hard to develop a club with a strong inclusive ethos, offering opportunities for players of all ages and abilities.
We are extremely proud of our youth development programme, supporting players from seven all the way up to eighteen. Many of our young players go on to have success with one of our adult teams, with some players going on to even bigger and better things!
There is a great wealth of local support for the club, everyone that helps does so on a voluntary basis and through everyone’s hard work and dedication we have been able to achieve and maintain FA Accredited status.
Whilst some clubs choose to reinvest their revenue into players and wages, here at Bugbrooke we hold a different set of values. All of our profits go into upgrading our equipment and facilities, building a solid future-proof foundation that will be here for future generations to enjoy.
Whilst this can sometimes hold us back from gaining huge success on the pitch, we feel our excellent facilities, youth development programme and ethos on community sets us apart from other clubs.
Success and progression starts from the beginnings.
Thank you for your support today, we hope that you enjoy the game, and we look forward to seeing you again soon.
Kev
Kevin Gardner, Chairman
Bugbroooke St Michaels Football Club would like to place on record our thanks to our team of volunteers, our advertisers and sponsors.
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I’m really proud that we’ve created a new U18 Girls team this season as part of the ongoing development of the female pathway here at the Sett. The reaction from everyone at the club has been incredibly supportive and myself, Bob (Assistant Coach), Zara (Physio), as well as the players and parents have all been impressed by the warm welcome we’ve received.
The girls play in the Beds FA Girls Football League and despite being a new team, we’ve challenged ourselves by going into Division 1. Our season started with a tough trip to Luton Town ending up on the wrong side of a 7 goal thriller,losing 4-3. The following week we hosted Chesham Utd for our first ever game at the Sett winning 2-1 and earning our first points of the season.
U17/U18 is a difficult age group for female footballers – there are lots of competing pressures including education and exams. The situation is made harder as lots of youth football clubs finish at U16 - players often have nowhere to go and many stop playing altogether. We’re delighted to be able to provide the girls with a new opportunity – players have joined us from as far afield as Corby and Dunstable – and although it’s still early days the squad is coming together really nicely.
Bugbrooke has a fantastic reputation for developing young players and we want to continue this on the female side. Our main aim this season is to be competitive in Div 1, however the U18s also provides a pathway into the Ladies Team and we hope to see some of our players stepping up through the season and playing at a higher level.
Finally, a huge thank you to everyone at the club who has helped us so far and of course to our new sponsors Compressed Air Technologies and Challenge-trg Recruitment.
James Geddes
James Geddes, U18's Girls Manager
OUR HISTORY BUGBROOKE ST MICHAELS FC
Formed in 1929, Bugbrooke St Michaels Football Club took over from Bugbrooke United who folded in 1928 after being in existence since 1910.
The club, which is named after the local St Michael’s and All Angels Church, initially took its place in the Northants Central Village League and had immense success, winning the league title from 1931 to 1937
The club closed for the Second World War before reforming in 1947 and were once again successful, winning the CVL title from 1947 to 1950, and were Northants Lower Junior Cup runners-up in 1949, a feat repeated in 1954.
We finally won the N F A Lower Junior Cup in 1956 and followed this in 1957 by winning the prestigious Daventry Charity Cup
The club had its most successful years from 1966 to 1972 when we won the Northants Central Combination Premier title and again from 1976 to 1979 with 1977 also seeing us win the N.F.A Lower Junior Cup again.
The club continued to succeed in the Northants Combination until 1987 when we took the decision to join the United Counties League.
At this time, we decided to run two teams in the U.C.L and two teams in the C.N.C. We also began our youth section and have continued this ever since. Today we run 4 adult sides, including a recently formed Ladies team as well as 15 youth teams.
The club has continued to enjoy success across all age groups over those 30 years, the most notable being N F A Junior Cup winners in 1992, N.F.A Lower Junior Cup in 1993, and U.C.L Division One winners in 2001.
The reputation for producing successful youth teams has increased over those years and 4 of our youth players (under 16) have been signed by professional league clubs
The achievements of the club on the field have always been supported by a hardworking committee whose chief officers are recorded on a roll in the clubhouse flyer They, along with the supporters of the club, have built up the excellent changing room sand clubhouse since 1980
We hope that you enjoy the facilities that they have provided over those years, and we look forward to seeing you again in the future
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LEICESTER NIRVANA FC
Leicester Nirvana Football Club (Nirvana) nurtures junior talent from the age of 5 years up to under 18’s, Seniors reserves and Seniors first team. Providing a clear pathway for young players to develop in to men’s football in the non league pyramid system. Over time the club has developed and restructured, we have a development club that focusses on providing opportunities for young players aged 5-9 to access structured coaching in a friendly and nurturing environment. The club also has teams that are part of the grassroots leagues systems, our teams go from Under 7’s through to adults.
Nirvana is known for developing young talented players and strong teams with many of those teams playing at the higher end of the league structures. Today, Nirvana embodies more than a football club and aims to be a platform that allows young people life changing opportunities via football or other arenas. With a strong community focus, Nirvana will continue to fuse football and the sporting development of individuals, with the wider support of advocacy to influence public policy and the decisions that ultimately affect our members.
Nirvana FC began its activities in Leicester in the mid-1980s growing out of the Red Star youth group in the city. The club has always had a strong BME holding but discriminates against no one and welcomes all. A real local community club for the whole city, especially for parents and their children from multi-racial inner city backgrounds. Nirvana is a true local melting pot around the integrative sport of football. Starting on Victoria Park in south Leicester in the local Mutual League, Nirvana lacked the resources and the facilities demanded by the local football pyramid. In 1989 the club’s senior adult side moved out of Leicestershire football to join the Central Midlands League. But in the early 1990s, frustrated with a lack of access to resources in adult football in Leicester, club members began to think about developing a very different sort of club focusing on youngsters only. In 1994 Leicester Nirvana was born. As football for children really took off in Leicester in the 1990s so Nirvana grew, a positive haven for inner city kids, and for Leicester children from wider afield. Because of its enthusiasm and care the club recruited some of the most talented young players in the city.
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After establishing as a very successful junior club, the club initiated discussions to re-establish a senior team for the young players to aspire to. This started in 2008 and the club entered a team in the Leicester City Football League. However at the same time the club initiated conversations relating to the possibility merging with Thurnby Rangers to give us a pathway to Step 7, at this point Thurnby Nirvana was born.
Leicester Nirvana FC and Thurnby Rangers FC had both established their own identities at a local football level. Thurnby Rangers being a successful senior side in the early years 2001-03 in which time Leicester Nirvana no longer had a senior side but had an outstanding reputation at mini, junior and youth football levels both locally and nationally. Over the past period they have contributed to the development of players with to date 8 professionals playing at pro clubs and approximately 15 youths at academies across the country, who have been through the clubs youth system, an outstanding return.
In the build up of the 2008/09 season the decision to merge was only reached seven days before the season kicked off which left us scrambling to sign 15 players and get a team ready for the first fixture. Thankfully with the hard work of many individuals and a new merged management committee, we managed to field a team and finish in a very respectable 5th place. Considering our initiation to senior league football and the steep learning curve relating to the entire off field responsibility, as a club we were pleased with our return, although as a club first is always our goal.
Season 2009/10 started with more optimism, we had time to plan and prepare a good pre season programme with many new players being attracted to the club given our total football style of play. Again with both the on and off field learning curves we finished a respectable third in only our second season involved in adult football. We, as a club applied to the East Midland Counties League for promotion and after an extremely eventful summer and an enormous amount of effort and work behind the scenes, secured a place at Step 6 of the National league system.
The 2010/11 season was a new chapter in the club’s history, competing in the East Midlands Counties league at Step 6 for the first time.
The club firmly established themselves at this level with a respectable 9th place finish in the league, which was a good return with a young and somewhat inexperienced squad with an average age of 23. The season also saw defeat in the County Cup final and was topped off with success in the League Cup with a 4-2 victory over Holbrook Sports.
The 2011/2012 season was another learning curve in the history of the club, competing in The FA Cup for the first time. The season looked rather promising at the beginning after an explosive start and a memorable scalp of St Neots Town in the FA Cup, however inconsistency led to a 7th place finish in the league.
The 2012/13 season proved to be another exciting chapter in the short history of the club. Once again The FA Cup brought excitement with great victories over Lincoln Moorlands and Lincoln United in the Preliminary rounds, however we again fell at the First Qualifying round
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HINCKLEY AFC
losing to Gresley in the replay. In terms of the league, this season was our best to date, an incredible run from December, which included 19 victories, 1 draw and 2 defeats ensured a third place finish.
The 2013/14 season once again looked promising for manager Damion Quailey who had managed to add some good depth to his squad while keeping together the majority of the players from the previous season. There had also been additions to the coaching team behind the scenes which again improved our young squad. Hannah Dingley was appointed Assistant Manager with Chris Gowan and Brain Quailey making up the coaching staff. This paid off for the club by winning the East Midland Counties League.
The 2014-15 season saw us playing at Level 5 in the United Counties Premier Division. A new venture for the club at this level which was again a memorable year in the history of the club. After securing the majority of the squad and again adding the few quality additions we made our mark on the UCL by finishing runners up in our first attempt. The season was also memorable as we embarked on our best run in The FA Vase by reaching the last 32, only to go out in AET during a thrilling encounter with Holbeach United.
Season 2015/16 once again has seen tremendous change in the club. The club had to move from the site in Thurnby to Gleneagles Avenue and has also reverted back to its original name of ‘Leicester Nirvana. On the playing side, while a few players have progressed up the Non league ladder, Manager Damion Quailey has re-signed the whole squad from the previous season and in addition made some good signings. This, with the promotion of some very talented youngsters from the youth, gave the players the appetite to improve on last year’s achievements. Once again we finished runners up only missing out on the title by Goal Difference. However, there was a sweet ending to the campaign as for the first time in the club’s history we were crowned Champions of the Leicestershire Challenge Cup by beating Barwell 3-0 at the King Power Stadium, the home of the Premier League Champions.
Season 2016/17 once again threw up new challenges for the club after manager Damion Qualiey and his coaching staff moved on and the club found itself in a transition period. Many of the senior players followed suit and moved on to play at a higher level. This presented a number of talented young players with the opportunity to compete at this level. Martin Sockett, who has a vast amount of managerial experience in Non League football, was given the task to develop the youngsters in order to compete, however this was short lived as Martin also moved to coach at a higher level. The club appointed Scott Goodwin as Manager, with Cheddi Gore as his assistant to stabilise the club and provide guidance to the very young squad. They were excited to work with the talent and the imminent development of moving to our very own ground. Friday 23rd December was an historic occasion when we played our first ever game at our own home of Hamilton Park, Oadby were the visitors and unfortunately for us the result went in the favour of Oadby, an entertaining 3-2 defeat in our first game at ‘Home.’
HINCKLEY AFC TODAY’S VISITORS
The season was once again a steep learning curve for the club and its young players. At times some of the football played was incredible, however we lacked that consistency over a stretch of games. A very inexperienced and young squad competed well given the circumstances and eventually finished 17th in the league.
The 2017/18 Nick Anderson was appointed who had plenty of experience in Non-League football and in particular the UCL. Nick was able to build on the players’ experience from last season and bring more consistency to our play. Winning the League Knock Out Cup against a strong Yaxley side was the highlight of the 2017-18 season. During the summer Nick Andersen stood down as manager. So we went into the 2018-19 season with a new management team of Dave Clay and Graham Chambers. After a good run in the FA Vase getting through to the later stages of the competition our league form was not as good and we finished the season in the bottom half of the table. This lead to Dave Clay leaving the club towards the end of the campaign.
We started the 2019-20 season with a new management team, Nick Brett who again ahd plenty of non league management experience came into the post. Recruiting some key experienced players was important to nature the young squad. A more consistent season was on the cards, but to the premature ending caused by the Covid 19 pandemic.
Preparations for the 20-21 season are amongst the strangest that we have ever experienced. The Covid situation in the City of Leicester meant the government enforcing a local lockdown in Leicester which prevented us from beginning pre-season likes the rest of the country would have. Nevertheless the squad were given individual programs to prepare and when restrictions were finally lifted on 19th August we began training in full flow. With just 12 days to prepare for an FA Cup tie!
Tom Hayes brought some stability an consistency during the 21-22 season, where he developed a young side who were learning their ropes at this level. After loosing the first 10 games, we went on an unbeaten run of 14 games which propelled us into the top 5, however we ended up finishing 11th.
The new season as always comes with new challenges , however we are delighted to start the 22-23 campaign with one of our, Ryan Walker leading the side. Ryan came through the youth set up at the club and taken his first managerial role, Mike Makoni, ex Leicester City Women’s team assistant manager joins the ever present Mark Rawle in completing the management team.
The club in football history terms is still very immature but with a great thirst and desire to keep moving onwards and upwards. The club is also proud to represent a very diverse population from across all cultures within the city. We have created a club that represents the communities in which we live today. A great achievement whilst striving for football success.
Looking forward, the club is hopeful we can continue to grow at the current pace and who knows? In a short period of time we may be plying our trade at the very top of the national league system knocking on the door of the football league.
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TEAMSHEETS
BUGBROOKE ST MICHAELS LEICSTER NIRVANA
Manager
Scott Carlin
Colours
White/Black
Team
Ryan Martindale
Matt Bazeley
Lewis Brooks
Jack Culwick
Ben Dimond
Oskar Gajewski
Ronnie Gibbon
Micky Ibbeson
Sonny Che Knights
Dalton Leon
Bayley Leslie
Tony Logongo
Dante Memoli
Dumedi Okoye
Joel Powell
Shad Reza
Kieran Spencer
Johny Carey
Bailey Weatherly
Tom Simmons
Harry Slaymaker
Romeo Ingman
Jake Webster
Manager
Connor O’Neil
Team
JAKE WILLIAMS (GK)
CALEB HULLEY (GK)
ORRIN CARTER-FELL
PATRYK CICHOSZ
LUKE COLEMAN
NOAH INGHAM-WRIGHT
JORRIN JOHN
LYNAS KING
KAREEM MAJZOUB
TAWANDA MANGONDOZA
MASS MBYE
ELIAS MCINTOSH
MAHDI MOHAMMED
DANTE NAUTE-BROWN
JORDON NELSON
SHEMAR PETTET
MOHAMMED POLLI
OLIVER PUNT
DAVIDE RIGHI
BAHADA SANDHU
MICHAEL AKINTUNDE
JAYLAN WILDBORE
PRADEEP BAHREY
MUSSA BHAM
ZAAKIR BHAM
MAHMOUD JUMA
JASPER KUTSHIENZA
Match Officials: Callum Timperley, Stefan Calarasu, Kevan Atkins
